The eye-tracking headlamps will sense the driver’s vision and adjust the light flow on the road. It is the part of Vauxhall’s car development plan to revolutionise the headlamps with a range of new technologies. In this new series of technologies, the most innovative and appealing is the eye-tracking headlamp system. This system will detect the eye motion of the driver and adjust the beams towards the point of Focus.
It is the system which has been under development in last two years and now finally Vauxhall has decided to disclose the project. The project has reached the point where it will be soon able to go into cars and Volkswagen decided this is the time to disclose it. It will become a part of Vauxhall’s third generation of adaptive technologies and lighting systems in the next few years.
This system will get assistance from a cabin mounted camera with an outlying infra-red sensor to detect the eye motion. It will scan the eyes up to 50 times per second to determine the line of sight. This information will be sent to the central system to adjust the headlamp actuators.
Director of Lighting Technology at Opel/Vauxhall Ingolf Schneider has explained from the technical development centre that the Vauxhall development team is working on the preciseness of the system and they have developed a sophisticated delay algorithm to handle the jerking eye movements in the drivers. Because sometimes drivers accidently change their Focus from the road to somewhere else.
Vauxhall said that the change in the direction of light will be provided to some safe extent, for example if the driver stops watching at the road and start looking anywhere else, light will be automatically kept in the direction of travel.
Apart from this technology, Vauxhall has announced that they will introduce a more adaptive hi-beam system called Matrix-LED system. It will adjust the LED headlamps according to the traffic adjustments on the road. It will facilitate the drivers coming from opposite side.
